Thanks.....that coin was 9 inches deep and my girlfriend found it using her entry level White's TreasureMaster.
The ones you find together are the best!
Thanks.....that coin was 9 inches deep and my girlfriend found it using her entry level White's TreasureMaster.
Just went driving one day to a park that wasn't old enough for silver but I had that "hunch" it would be good. I pulled $400+ in clad, 16 silver rings 'n jewelry and 3 gold pendants out of it in about 6 months. I was the only hunter out there every time I went.
Yeah, you know what I am talking about.
Hardly a day goes by that I am not thinking about that site. It is inaccessible in the winter months, there is only a few short weeks in the spring and fall when the weather is perfect for accessing and digging due to mud. The summer months are oppressive as hell.
One thing that baffles me is the amount of unfired projectiles I find there. Round balls of various calibers and Picket bullets. It is like they scattered handfuls of them around the site. Also, pounds of melted lead. Literally pounds. They must have been manufacturing projectiles there, as I have found a huge 5lb chunk of lead with knife and hatchet marks in it and seals from bags of lead shot. It is strange, but extremely fun.
I think my favorite honey hole sites have been old park scrapes (bagged tons of silver including a 1916D key date merc and some semi key coins of various types, tokens, buttons, jewelry, etc) and virgin western frontier sites (late 1700's to late 1800's). Nothing like seeing reales, seateds and gold coins come alive. Great relics that sometimes tell quite a historic story.
In my 45+ yrs. of this, I've had a lot of spine-tingling sites and finds. And while this one isn't necessarily the "most silver" and even though it didn't give me any of my gold coins, yet it stands out in my mind as one of the funnest :
There was a small CA town, that only had 400-ish persons @ population , during the 1880s to 1920s. I did my research and found mention of a country picnic site, where the entire town would "hitch up the wagons" and "wind up the model T's" and everyone would go out to this spot, for 4th of July, Mothers Day, Easter, etc....
But when I came across this reference, in the early 1990s, it didn't say exactly WHERE, along this certain country road, that the park was. And NO other source of material shed any more light on the issue.
But I researched the names of the old patriarch rancher families in the area , and found an elderly man, in his 90s age-wise, who could remember as a boy (1920s) where it was. He was able to describe instructions in vivid detail .
I was able to find this grove of Oak trees, in the middle of what is now only a cow pasture. By the time a few weeks was over, my buddy and I had found about 150 coins. The NEWEST coin was a 1925 merc ! There was zero clad, zero aluminum, etc.... Dates of the coins ranged from 1870s to mid 1920s (so there was plenty of pesky teens wheaties). The best coin was a rare CC $5 gold that my friend got.
You can imagine the fun when EVERY time you get a penny/dime signal, it will , by definition, be an old coin.
The only "junk" I recall finding, was an occasional bullet shell
Just went driving one day to a park that wasn't old enough for silver but I had that "hunch" it would be good. I pulled $400+ in clad, 16 silver rings 'n jewelry and 3 gold pendants out of it in about 6 months. I was the only hunter out there every time I went.
Must be one in SoCal NoxDude missed!